Alex Prendergast
@bramblebotanist.bsky.social
Botany Senior Specialist at Natural England, #BSBI Limonium/Rubus/Galium/Hypericum/Thymus referee & meetings secretary. Elm/stonewort/dandelion/snowdrop enthusiast, Plant & butterfly reintros, botany tours, Punk, #Norfolk #Iamabotanist Views own 🇪🇺
Houseleek Sempervivum tectorum on a craggy carstone wall in west Norfolk seen with #NorfolkFloraGroup this weekend. A few #Necrobotany flowers remaining for #Wildflowerhour
February 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Houseleek Sempervivum tectorum on a craggy carstone wall in west Norfolk seen with #NorfolkFloraGroup this weekend. A few #Necrobotany flowers remaining for #Wildflowerhour
Gagea bohemica Early Star-of-Bethlehem at Stanner Rocks! A cheery spark of sunshine in the damp grey welshness. All credit to the volunteer site warden who keeps the habitat open for this and the site’s other botanical treasures. #Wildflowerhour
February 15, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Gagea bohemica Early Star-of-Bethlehem at Stanner Rocks! A cheery spark of sunshine in the damp grey welshness. All credit to the volunteer site warden who keeps the habitat open for this and the site’s other botanical treasures. #Wildflowerhour
Veronica persica var persica, the scarcer and earlier flowering version of Common Field Speedwell, with a solid blue rather than pale/white lower petal in the common var corrensiana. Seen on open verges etc with #NorfolkFloraGroup #Wildflowerhour
February 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Veronica persica var persica, the scarcer and earlier flowering version of Common Field Speedwell, with a solid blue rather than pale/white lower petal in the common var corrensiana. Seen on open verges etc with #NorfolkFloraGroup #Wildflowerhour
Reposted by Alex Prendergast
Could you become BSBI's new Wales Officer, helping support the network of botanists across Wales & leading our Priority Plants in Wales Project?
You'd be helping to conserve rare & beautiful wild plants, like this lovely Radnor Lily.
For more details & how to apply, visit:
bsbi.org/about/people...
You'd be helping to conserve rare & beautiful wild plants, like this lovely Radnor Lily.
For more details & how to apply, visit:
bsbi.org/about/people...
February 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Could you become BSBI's new Wales Officer, helping support the network of botanists across Wales & leading our Priority Plants in Wales Project?
You'd be helping to conserve rare & beautiful wild plants, like this lovely Radnor Lily.
For more details & how to apply, visit:
bsbi.org/about/people...
You'd be helping to conserve rare & beautiful wild plants, like this lovely Radnor Lily.
For more details & how to apply, visit:
bsbi.org/about/people...
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PhD opportunity: I am looking for someone with a passion for the natural environment and an interest in developing applied research collaboratively with the RSPB
Please spread the word!
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
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@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@rspb.bsky.social
Please spread the word!
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@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@rspb.bsky.social
Fully Funded PhD Opportunity – J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during transition to rewilding | Research | Teesside University
J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during…
J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during…
Fully Funded PhD Opportunity – J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during transition to rewilding | Research | Teesside University
J Denis Summers-Smith Research Studentship: How to promote abundant and diverse bird resources during transition to rewilding | Research | Teesside University Application Deadline: 13/03/2026 5:00PM Anticipated Interview Date: 17/03/2026 Staff name: Dr Ambroise Baker Start date: Successful applicants will be expected to start in May or October 2026. This PhD project aims to study early management interventions during the transition from agriculture to rewilding, with a special focus on the provision of bird habitat and resources, such as seeds and invertebrate abundance.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:15 AM
PhD opportunity: I am looking for someone with a passion for the natural environment and an interest in developing applied research collaboratively with the RSPB
Please spread the word!
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@bes-conservation.bsky.social
@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@rspb.bsky.social
Please spread the word!
@bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social
@bes-conservation.bsky.social
@rewildingbritain.org.uk
@rspb.bsky.social
A comparison of snowdrop leaves. Galanthus elwesii, nivalis, plicatus and their three hybrids. Names on ALT
February 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
A comparison of snowdrop leaves. Galanthus elwesii, nivalis, plicatus and their three hybrids. Names on ALT
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Snowdrops by their leaves: Galanthus nivalis, elwesii & plicatus.
Not to scale as nivalis is smaller than the other two, and these are garden varieties which may have particular colour tones. 😉
In #Cambridge #BotanicGarden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Botany #Snowdrops #Galanthus
Not to scale as nivalis is smaller than the other two, and these are garden varieties which may have particular colour tones. 😉
In #Cambridge #BotanicGarden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Botany #Snowdrops #Galanthus
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Snowdrops by their leaves: Galanthus nivalis, elwesii & plicatus.
Not to scale as nivalis is smaller than the other two, and these are garden varieties which may have particular colour tones. 😉
In #Cambridge #BotanicGarden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Botany #Snowdrops #Galanthus
Not to scale as nivalis is smaller than the other two, and these are garden varieties which may have particular colour tones. 😉
In #Cambridge #BotanicGarden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Botany #Snowdrops #Galanthus
An interesting snowdrop Galanthus nivalis found today on the wrong side of the Norfolk-Suffolk border. Inner mark grading from green to orange. A colour changer ‘var mutabilis’ perhaps
February 4, 2026 at 9:55 PM
An interesting snowdrop Galanthus nivalis found today on the wrong side of the Norfolk-Suffolk border. Inner mark grading from green to orange. A colour changer ‘var mutabilis’ perhaps
Some awesome snowdrops acquired today :)
February 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Some awesome snowdrops acquired today :)
Reposted by Alex Prendergast
I've found a particularly lovely snowdrop. I think it's a hybrid between Galanthus nivalis and elwesii - and it's got tiny green dots on the tips of the outer petals! 😍
Sharing this with some proper snowdrop enthusiasts:
@bramblebotanist.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social
Sharing this with some proper snowdrop enthusiasts:
@bramblebotanist.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
I've found a particularly lovely snowdrop. I think it's a hybrid between Galanthus nivalis and elwesii - and it's got tiny green dots on the tips of the outer petals! 😍
Sharing this with some proper snowdrop enthusiasts:
@bramblebotanist.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social
Sharing this with some proper snowdrop enthusiasts:
@bramblebotanist.bsky.social @commonbynature.bsky.social
A thought exercise: taxon x lives at one native location. Its likely destruction there will with reasonable confidence and authenticity restore it throughout its extensive former range + appropriate habitat management ‘in perpetuity’. Without intervention it might be doomed. What would you do?
February 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
A thought exercise: taxon x lives at one native location. Its likely destruction there will with reasonable confidence and authenticity restore it throughout its extensive former range + appropriate habitat management ‘in perpetuity’. Without intervention it might be doomed. What would you do?
Galanthus nivalis var pleniflorus is probably the best known variant. Usually a messy flower but occasionally something beautifully formed is found. It has some pollen but no seeds so lives alongside standard nivalis.
February 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Galanthus nivalis var pleniflorus is probably the best known variant. Usually a messy flower but occasionally something beautifully formed is found. It has some pollen but no seeds so lives alongside standard nivalis.
Galanthus nivalis ssp scharlockii Donkey-ear Snowdrop is a funny thing.. named for its double spathe often sticking up like ears. Small often greenish flowers which open facing skyward. Populations in the Low Countries & vigorous in gardens so maybe occurring as a throw-out somewhere
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Galanthus nivalis ssp scharlockii Donkey-ear Snowdrop is a funny thing.. named for its double spathe often sticking up like ears. Small often greenish flowers which open facing skyward. Populations in the Low Countries & vigorous in gardens so maybe occurring as a throw-out somewhere
A few snowdrops have the ability to change the colour of their markings. I’ve proposed the name ‘var mutabilis’. This is a lovely robust polyploid mutabilis found in south Norfolk - the inner mark slowly bleeds from green to yellow.
February 2, 2026 at 7:22 PM
A few snowdrops have the ability to change the colour of their markings. I’ve proposed the name ‘var mutabilis’. This is a lovely robust polyploid mutabilis found in south Norfolk - the inner mark slowly bleeds from green to yellow.
Another mostly northern group in Galanthus nivalis is the ‘spikies’. They have claw-like tepals, greenish semi-double and completely sterile.
February 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Another mostly northern group in Galanthus nivalis is the ‘spikies’. They have claw-like tepals, greenish semi-double and completely sterile.
Galanthus nivalis var sandersii rarely occurs outside Northumbria and when it does it is never the deep yellow of the northern plants. ‘Norfolk Blonde’ is a selection of such plants, originally found.. in Norfolk
February 2, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Galanthus nivalis var sandersii rarely occurs outside Northumbria and when it does it is never the deep yellow of the northern plants. ‘Norfolk Blonde’ is a selection of such plants, originally found.. in Norfolk
Yellow Snowdrops Galanthus nivalis var sandersii are rare plants making up about 0.001% of plants in a few populations of otherwise standard nivalis, notably in Northumbria.
February 2, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Yellow Snowdrops Galanthus nivalis var sandersii are rare plants making up about 0.001% of plants in a few populations of otherwise standard nivalis, notably in Northumbria.
Galanthus nivalis var poculiformis is a beautiful thing with inner tepals more-or-less like the outers. The best plants are found in northern England and southern Scotland
February 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Galanthus nivalis var poculiformis is a beautiful thing with inner tepals more-or-less like the outers. The best plants are found in northern England and southern Scotland
Galanthus nivalis viridapice, a name given to snowdrops with green tips to the outer tepals. This chunky waxy wild find from Norfolk may also be a polyploid
February 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Galanthus nivalis viridapice, a name given to snowdrops with green tips to the outer tepals. This chunky waxy wild find from Norfolk may also be a polyploid
Galanthus nivalis ‘Green Tear’ a virescent snowdrop, var virescens - genetics found in some Dutch & Belgian populations.
February 2, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Galanthus nivalis ‘Green Tear’ a virescent snowdrop, var virescens - genetics found in some Dutch & Belgian populations.
Galanthus plicatus ‘The Wizard’ a inverse poculiform with interesting triangular flowers. Just one flower on my clump this year despite usually being a good doer.
February 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Galanthus plicatus ‘The Wizard’ a inverse poculiform with interesting triangular flowers. Just one flower on my clump this year despite usually being a good doer.
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Lovely to see one of my favourite plants, Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis), beginning to flower rather earlier than usual in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Lovely to see one of my favourite plants, Green Hellebore (Helleborus viridis), beginning to flower rather earlier than usual in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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Sweet Alyssum from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
February 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Sweet Alyssum from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Reposted by Alex Prendergast
Reposted by Alex Prendergast
Hazel and snowdrops in Nth #Donegal today for #wildflowerhour
February 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Hazel and snowdrops in Nth #Donegal today for #wildflowerhour